24/7 Wall St. will look at the Twitter posts at Reuters Biz, WSJ, Financial Times, CNN Money, MarketWatch, CNBC, and 24/7 Wall St. each day to see which stocks are most frequently mentioned. It is clear that in this area of social media these tweet are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. These financial sites are followed by a combined 625,000 Twitter users which makes them a sizeable sample of Wall St.’s interests. In some cases, we will publish the actual tweets from the sites.
WSJ: Bank of Japan Cuts Key Rate: In a surprise move, the Bank of Japan cut its overnight call rate to help ease th… http://on.wsj.com/a9Mvnw
NYT: Dealbook Column: Breaking Even on A.I.G. http://nyti.ms/c8x9p9
CNN Money: Bank of Japan cuts benchmark rate http://bit.ly/aPfh8t
Reuters Biz: Consumer loan delinquencies rise slightly: ABA http://dlvr.it/6Wb2L
Reuters Biz: Moody’s warns of Irish downgrade as recovery falters http://dlvr.it/6WXmB
FT: Bank of Japan in surprise rate cut: The Bank of Japan cut interest rates and pledged to keep rates at zero until p… http://bit.ly/aGGIWi
Yahoo! Finance: Japan’s central bank cuts rates to zero to fight strong yen, deflation http://yhoo.it/dnRTEu
Yahoo! Finance: Ford shows flagship Lincoln in overhaul: sources http://yhoo.it/8YhoF9 $F $MS $$
Douglas A. McIntyre